Update: African News Agency/ANA reported that police spokesperson Katlego Mogale said that the unemployed columnist was not detained at the airport. “I’ve been in contact with OR Tambo International Airport and can confirm that no case was opened, nor the journalist mentioned in your enquiry detained,” said Mogale. A British woman, who ended as runner-up […]

The woman has been in South African ‘making a documentary’ about farm murders in the country posted a video on Twitter where she claims she has been detained, her passport confiscated and will not be allowed to leave. She was later allowed to leave.

Airport security was nice enough to let her keep her phone before she was taken to ‘detention’. She also had enough time with her phone to pin her Tweet to the top of her Twitter profile.

She later posted ‘proof’ that she was put on watchlist as per the Department of Home Affairs request. The request asked to prevent her from entering the country based on ‘strong racist views’. In response, the British woman claims she is not racist, despite having previously called migrants ‘cockroahces’ and saying ‘racial profiling is a good thing’.

The failed reality TV star has been begging people on the internet to “crowdfund her trip” (despite seemingly being in the country already) because she believes she needs tight security or “might not make it out of South Africa alive”. She claimed on her crowdfunding page that she needed over R260 000 for security.

She has not disclosed how much money she has raised but did use the post proclaiming her ‘freedom’ to plead for more funding.